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We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.

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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.

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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

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There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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INCEST: A game the whole family can play.

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Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)

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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

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I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.

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Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

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